A space time cut through cinema.
What is behind the cinema screen? What if the forces of unlimited imagination penetrate through the canvas into our reality? What if the auditorium dissolves and with it the familiar laws of cinema itself? In a way never seen before, tx-reverse shows this collision of reality and cinema and draws its viewers into a vortex in which the familiar order of space and time seems to be suspended. Back in the 1990s, Martin Reinhart invented a film technique called “tx-transform,” which exchanges the time (t) and space axis (x) in a film. 20 years after Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich used this film technique for the first time in a short film (tx-transform, 1998), they deal once again with the question of what previously unseen world arises when space and time are interchanged, and in just the right setting: a cinema at full 360°. At the Babylon Kino in Berlin, they filmed about 135 actors with the OmniCam-360 and calculated the installation tx-reverse 360 for the ZKM Karlsruhe from this material.
Project Credits:
- Concept and direction: Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich
- music and sound design: Siegfried Friedrich
- OmniCam-360: Jana Pape, Danny Tatzelt, Christian Weissig
- tx-transform technology: Martin Reinhart
- DOP: Martin Putz
- production assistants: Elias Wolf, Moritz Woll
- sound: Bastian Orthmann
- set photos: Alexander Grennigloh
- programming: Matthias Strohmaier
- post production consulting: Leonard Coster
- post production: Bernhard Schlick
- retouching: Patryk Senwicki, Dominic Spitaler, Peter Várnai
- cinema technology: Bernd Rohde
- cinema organ: Anna Vavilkina
- violin: Serkan Gürkan
- violoncello: Konstantin Zelenin
- singing, voice: Marlene Umlauft
- voices: Ira Prodeus, Oleg Prodeus
- sound mix: Georg Tomandl/Sunshine Mastering
- VR Spatial Audio Mix: Thomas Aichinger, scopeaudio
- VR post production: Axel Dietrich, vrisch
- thanks to: Roberta Bianchini, Judith Bihr, Eva Dertschei, Christian Dürckheim-Ketelhodt, Timothy Grossman, Susanna Kraus – IMAGO, Ingrid Truxa, Peter Weibel
- shot at Babylon Berlin
- production: Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktions G.m.b.H. © 2019, Distributor: Sixpack Film (short film), Lemonade Films (VR version), supported by Federal Chancellery Departement for the Arts (AT), City of Vienna (AT), Duerckheim Collection (DE), Produced in cooperation with the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (DE)
